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Kubrick's War: The Making of Full Metal Jacket
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- 2h 4m
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Plot
Kubrick’s War tells the extraordinary, untold story behind Stanley Kubrick’s iconic 1987 film Full Metal Jacket—a production defined by obsession, conflict, innovation and artistic brilliance. Built around over 30 new interviews with cast and crew members, including Matthew Modine, Vincent D’Onofrio and Arliss Howard, this feature documentary takes audiences inside Kubrick’s fiercely demanding creative process. At its heart are newly uncovered, previously unheard audio interviews with Kubrick himself, alongside never-before-released recordings of the director rehearsing with the film’s actors at Pinewood Studios in 1986. Intimate and revealing, these recordings allow the famously private filmmaker to guide viewers through the triumphs, tensions and audacious decisions behind his masterpiece.
Cast
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- Stanley Kubrick · Self - Director/Self - Producer/Self - Co-Screenwriter, Full Metal Jacket(archive footage) (archive sound)
- Matthew Modine · Self - Pvt. Joker, Full Metal Jacket
- Vincent D'Onofrio · Self - Pvt. Pyle, Full Metal Jacket
- R. Lee Ermey · Self - Gny. Sgt. Hartman, Full Metal Jacket(archive footage) (archive sound)
- Dorian Harewood · Self - Eightball, Full Metal Jacket
- Kevyn Major Howard · Self - Rafterman, Full Metal Jacket
- Arliss Howard · Self - Pvt. Cowboy, Full Metal Jacket
- Kieron Jecchinis · Self - Crazy Earl, Full Metal Jacket
- Jon Stafford · Self - Doc Jay, Full Metal Jacket
- Ian Tyler · Self - Lt. Cleves, Full Metal Jacket
- Sal Lopez · Self - T.H.E. Rock, Full Metal Jacket
- Papillon Soo · Self - Da Nang Hooker, Full Metal Jacket
- Peter Edmund · Self - Pvt. Snowball, Full Metal Jacket
- Gil Kopel · Self - Stork, Full Metal Jacket
- Herbert Norville · Self - Daytona Dave, Full Metal Jacket
- Gustav Hasford · Self - Co-Screenwriter, Full Metal Jacket(archive sound)
- Michael Herr · Self - Co-Screenwriter/Self - Associate Producer, Full Metal Jacket(archive sound)
- Douglas Milsome · Self - Lighting Cameraman, Full Metal Jacket
- Leon Vitali · Self - Casting Director/Self - Assistant to Director, Full Metal Jacket(archive sound)
- Anton Furst · Self - Production Designer, Full Metal Jacket(archive sound)
- Christine Allsopp · Self - Co-Makeup Artist, Full Metal Jacket
- Julie Robinson Lyman · Self - Continuity, Full Metal Jacket
- Michael Stevenson · Self - 2nd AD, Full Metal Jacket
- Chris Bashall · Self - Action Vehicles, Full Metal Jacket
- Bob Bayer · Self - Gus Hasford's friend and fellow marine Correspondent in Vietnam
- Adrian Bush · Self - Vietnam Platoon, Full Metal Jacket
- James Fenwick · Self - Author, Stanley Kubrick Produces
- Robert Hills · Self - Armourer, Full Metal Jacket
- Philip Honey · Self - Palmbrokers, Full Metal Jacket
- Vivian Kubrick · Self - Composer, Full Metal Jacket(archive footage)
- Martin Trevis · Self - Boom Operator, Full Metal Jacket
- Alexander Walker · Self - Interviewer(archive sound)
- Dan Weldon · Self - Parris Island Recruit, Full Metal Jacket
- Jason Wrenn · Self - Assistant Camera, Full Metal Jacket
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Crew attachedHank Starrs attached to write.
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CastingDorian Harewood joins the cast.
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Studio attachedNorthSouth Film Company joins the production.